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iSwirl.com - Stay connected while you're on the go

Iswirl.com keeps you connected with your friends while you're on the go, and answer the questions: "where are you?" and "what are you doing?" They focus on places and a rich presence. Whether you're on your PC or your mobile phone, you can pull up your friends' positions on a map, see where they are and where they're going, and what they've been up to recently. You're always connected. You'll even get alerts if your friends update their status, change locations, or contribute photos or notes. Or find places near you, see who else has visited, see the photos they've posted and the things they've said. You can even create your own places, contribute geotagged photos, and automatically build your activity feed. So it's a friend finder like Loopt? Sort of. Jaiku? A little. Twitter? Maybe a bit. This is as much like them as they are each other. Swirl runs on about 200 phones, and they're adding more every day. It's free, of course, and on the road to being open-sourced. Stay connected with your friends. Meet new people. Find new places. It's easy and it's fun.

 
  In their own words  

“With Swirl Connect for your mobile phone, you can locate and connect with a friend or a group of friends—whether they are at home on a PC, or on the go like you. Find out what your friends are up to, view their current locations or destinations, take a peek at the latest photos they've added. Or just find a nearby place of interest, see who else visited, and read what they had to say.”

http://www.iswirl.com

  Why it might be a killer  

Swirl runs on more handsets and networks than most mobile software of this sort. What good is a cool application that only runs on 10 phones on one network? Swirl is a crossover application, meshing web and mobile communications in real-time, and it combines popular features of mobile, social, location-based, and mashed-up software. Swirl is in the process of being open sourced -- one of the limited number of mobile open source projects out there.

  Some questions  

This seems an excellent tool for communicating with others through a cell phone. Will they add new applications to their software?

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Posted 7 Months 3 Days ago by joefission | Visit http://www.iswirl.com
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written by Mark  6 Months 19 Days ago  
Why on earth would I need some so invasive like that?
written by Shaun Taylor  7 Months 3 Days ago  
Yes, that is a big concern. "Stalk" is a word that has become familiar!We combat the privacy issue by limiting who can see your activity. We use the word "friend" very literally, and not in the friend-collecting mindset on social networks. Only friends -- actual, real life friends -- can see your activity and location, or subscribe to your presence updates.We try to make it very clear -- by warning when submitting friend requests, when approving friend requests, in our help section, blog posts, etc. -- but of course, there's no way to reach everyone because the social network mode of communication is so ingrained by now.We always welcome suggestions for improvement.
written by Mike  7 Months 3 Days ago  
Major, major privacy issues here.
 
 
 
 
 
   
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